Traffic Volume Trends

January 2006

Travel on all roads and streets changed by 3.8 percent for January 2006 as compared with January 2005. Travel for the month is estimated to be 230.2 billion vehicle miles.
Cumulative Travel for 2006 changed by +3.8 percent. Cumulative estimate for the year is 230.2 billion vehicle miles of travel.

Estimated Vehicle-Miles of Travel by Region - January 2006 - (in Billions)
Change in Traffic as compared to same month last year.

Region

Total Travel

Percentage Change

North-East

33.2

3.6

South-Atlantic

50.8

1.6

North-Central

52.1

3.4

South-Gulf

46.4

4.1

West

47.9

6.4

Note:
All data for this month are preliminary. Revised values for the previous month are shown in Tables 1 and 2.
All vehicle-miles of travel computed with 2004 Table VM-2 as a base.
Compiled with data on hand as of March 22,2006.